On Feb. 18, a panel discussion was held in the Konover Auditorium titled “U.S. Democracy & Human Rights at a Crossroads.” Kathryn Libal, director of the Gladstein Human Rights Institute, was the first ...

The Steering Committee on Democracy (CDDEM) is composed of representatives from all member states of the Council of Europe. These representatives are officially nominated by their respective ...

Today, Human Rights First released our annual Democracy Watch Report. The report’s findings are drawn from our legislative ...

Let us not delude ourselves. Human rights and democracy which have been intertwined in the U.S. since its independence in 1776 — or for sure since the federal government was started in 1789 — are ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is eliminating his department’s main bureau focused on democracy and human rights as part of a reorganization of the agency’s operations announced Tuesday. Rubio said ...

Democracy is the bedrock of a free and fair society. The Council of Europe, with its 46 member states, is dedicated to protecting and promoting democratic values across Europe ...

American children are taught that democracy is the best form of government. I remember teachers saying that popularly elected governments are the “natural” endpoint of all societies. But is this true?

The article, which concerns the future of human evolution, is not interesting (in the way that the suggestions made by the geneticists Steve Jones are not interesting, though the evolutionary ...

For many citizens, democracy feels distant. We vote every few years, but it is hard to see how that democratic act improves our daily lives. Around us, we see service delivery failures, corruption ...

In Baku, Azerbaijan, Democracy Now! continues our coverage of the 2024 U.N. climate summit and its host country’s record on human rights. “Considering that our economy is completely relying on oil and ...